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 BOBEBTS V. SCHBEIBEB. 855 �They are applicable to ordinary proceedings in bankruptcy. For the reasons stated above they are superseded and made inapplicable to this case by the adoption of the alternative method of winding up the estate through the agency of a trustee and committee of creditors. The questions Bubmitted by the register must ail be answered in the negative. ���BoBEBTS and -others v. Schbsibeb. {Oireuit Court, W. D. PenngylDania. June 19, 1880.) �Patbht Ntjmbbb 6,258 Stjbtained — Method op iNORBAsrao thb Ca- PACiTï oE Ou- WeI/IiS. — Re-issued process patent number 6,258, granted January 6, 1875, for a new and useful improvement in the method or process of increaslng or restoring the productiveness of oil 'wells, by causing an explosion of gunpowder, or its equivalent, at or near the oil-bearing point, in connection with superincumbent fluid tamping, is not invalid for want of novelty and originality, or for any other reason. �Specipication — CoNSTRUCTioir. — The specification of a patent is to be construed with reference to the purpose of the patent. �Patent JSTumbbr 47,458 Bustainbd. — Patent number 47,458, for an im- provement in exploding torpedoes in artesian wells, sustained. �In Equity. Bill for infringement of two patents. �D. F, Patterson and George Harding, for complainants. �James O. Boyce and Henry Baldwin, Jr., for defendant. �Steokg, C. J. The bill charges infringement of two pat- ents belonging to the complainants. The first is a process patent (No. 6,258) granted on the sixth day of January, 1875, to Edward A. L. Eoberts, a re-issue of letters patent, (No. 6,e34,) which was itself a re-issue of original letters, 'dated May 20, 1866, granted to said Eoberts, and numbered 59,936. The original was for a new and useful improvement in meth- ods of increasing the capacity of oil wells, described in the specifications and drawings. The specification of the re-issued patent No. 6,258, upon which this suit is partly founded, sets forth subtantially the improvement or process desoribed in the original, and the claim is for "the method or process of increasing ox restoring the produotiveueas o£ oil weUs, hj ����